Buddhist mindfulness is about the present, but I also think it's about being real. Being awake to everything. Feeling like nothing can hurt you if you can look it straight on.


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Lo shakes his head at him.
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”You’re walking a thin fucking line.�...
KRISTA RITCHIE
She shrunk into herself and waited for me to stare at her like she was gross an dirty. But I just wa...
KRISTA RITCHIE
It doesn’t matter if she wanted it or not. No self-respecting man would offer something like that ...
KRISTA RITCHIE
You think you’re indebted to your parents because they gave you everything you have. But they didn...
KRISTA RITCHIE
Some battles are best fought with a sidekick.
KRISTA RITCHIE
He’s Loren Hale. Ice and whiskey. Powerful and intoxicating.
KRISTA RITCHIE
You could have knocked ... Or, you know, announced your entrance like they do on Downton Abbey KRISTA RITCHIE Yeah, my father is an egotistical douchebag," he says roughly. "My name literally means Jonathan emp...
KRISTA RITCHIE
Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, ...
KRISTA RITCHIE
I thought Rose was making that fucking shit up.”
“When you string together curse words, I g...
KRISTA RITCHIE
I could not live without Lo. He is as much a part of me as the sun is a part of the sky, as the eart...
KRISTA RITCHIE
His lips rise. “I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don’t come off like...
KRISTA RITCHIE
He stands confidently in his hot pink mankini. When I told him it was the only suit left, he literal...
KRISTA RITCHIE
I need you to know that I’m not going anywhere. I’ll always be here when you come home. There wi...
KRISTA RITCHIE
I have so many regrets. I don’t believe anyone who says they don’t. How can you live life making...
KRISTA RITCHIE
Why is it that the people you come to love are the ones that seem to hurt you the most?
KRISTA RITCHIE
I can't help but laugh into my next sip of water. For the first time, mine doesn't seem so bad.
KRISTA RITCHIE
He is my breath. My soul. My life-force. I have spent forever with him.
KRISTA RITCHIE
What’s going to happen,” he breathes, “is that I’m going to carry you through this door. I�...
KRISTA RITCHIE
Sometimes the person we think we’ll become is the person we already are, and the person we truly b...
KRISTA RITCHIE
She went a little fucking overboard on her anger." He looks at me. "Her daughters are all a bit nuts...
KRISTA RITCHIE
Lo: “How much did it hurt?”
Ryke: “Did what hurt?”
Lo: “Watching her with other ...
KRISTA RITCHIE
Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be ...
KRISTA ALLEN
Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...
A. R. TIPPETT
Love was holding someone's hand when you wanted to escape.
KRISTA VAN DOLZER